Tensions of American Federal Democracy
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Tensions of American Federal Democracy

Fragmentation of the State

Jared Sonnicksen

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Tensions of American Federal Democracy

Fragmentation of the State

Jared Sonnicksen

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About This Book

Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined with comparative perspectives – including those of other modern federal democracies – to explore the jigsaw puzzle that is the state of American federal democracy.

The USA has a complex political system prone to "divided government", which has become highly polarized in recent years. The reasons for this extend further and deeper than party diversification or rising populism. This book provides an original contribution encompassing the US polity and its overall development. The author explores how the US constitution has predisposed branches and levels of government to multiple forms of separation of power and constituency; and how developments in democratic and federal government over time have fostered more competition, diffusion, and decoupling, despite earlier trends to more cross-branch and cross-level cooperation. The book thus addresses a multifaceted inquiry, interrogating and conceptualizing the connections between institutions, ideas, and political development, while exploring the interlinkage between the institutional parameters of multidimensional division of powers, constitutional political ideas and their contestation, and the limitation of the state in the US federal democratic system.

This book will appeal to students and scholars of political science, American government and constitutional politics, federalism, comparative politics, and political theory.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
ISBN
9781000533194
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. List of figures
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Prologue
  12. 1 Introduction: Exploring the limited state
  13. 2 Towards an analytical framework
  14. 3 Constitutional immanence in the USA
  15. 4 The state of American federal democracy
  16. 5 Democratic divided government
  17. 6 Multilevel divided government
  18. 7 Politics of the Constitution
  19. 8 Conclusion: The decoupled polity
  20. Epilogue
  21. Index
Citation styles for Tensions of American Federal Democracy

APA 6 Citation

Sonnicksen, J. (2022). Tensions of American Federal Democracy (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3198851/tensions-of-american-federal-democracy-fragmentation-of-the-state-pdf (Original work published 2022)

Chicago Citation

Sonnicksen, Jared. (2022) 2022. Tensions of American Federal Democracy. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/3198851/tensions-of-american-federal-democracy-fragmentation-of-the-state-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Sonnicksen, J. (2022) Tensions of American Federal Democracy. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3198851/tensions-of-american-federal-democracy-fragmentation-of-the-state-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Sonnicksen, Jared. Tensions of American Federal Democracy. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2022. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.